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Current Practices and Trends

Gina BennettJune 3, 2009

Gina BennettJune 3, 2009


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Welcome! Introductions

Outline:

General conversation about educational technology The situation at COTR

The situation in BC

The situation in Canada

Your situations

Trends on the horizon


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Conversation about Educational

TechnologyWhat is educational technology, how is technology

used for delivery & communication in yourinstitutions?

What are your institutional, regional or nationalpriorities for educational technology?

Can you describe some institutional issues thattechnology might address? For example, extremelylarge classes, poor or spotty attendance, workingstudents, need to reach remote learner audiences.


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Educational technology quiz1. The personal computer first appeared on the market in the 1970s

a. Trueb. False

2. A new kind of copyright licence that allows for easier sharing of materialsis calleda. EasyShare

b. Creative Commonsc. GPLd. Copyleft

3. The country with the most internet users per capita (2008 info) is:a. Canadab. United Statesc. South Koread. Greenland

4. The earliest recorded resister to educational technology wasa. Mosesb. Plato

c. Alexander the Greatd. Leonardo de Vinci


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The situation at COTR Issue #1: remote, disperse learners, need for distance

delivery (Moodle)

Issue #2: remote, disperse learners, need for live-timecommunication (Adobe Connect) & alternatives(Elluminate'svRoom,WizIQ & Dimdim)

Issue #3: gradual switch from mostly wired to mostlywireless connectivity needs on campus

Issue #4: not really ENORMOUS classes, but poorparticipation in some of them (clickers)
http://www.cotronline.ca/https://present.bccampus.ca/http://www.elluminate.com/vroom/index.jsphttp://www.wiziq.com/Virtual_Classroom.aspxhttp://www.dimdim.com/http://www.dimdim.com/http://www.wiziq.com/Virtual_Classroom.aspxhttp://www.elluminate.com/vroom/index.jsphttps://present.bccampus.ca/http://www.cotronline.ca/


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The situation in BC More & more online students, pushing the envelope for what can

be delivered at a distance (RWSL)

Many institutions offering online courses, extending the

provincial campus to internally overlapping boundaries; greaterneed for coordination, articulation, transfer etc. (BCcampus )

Online learning extending beyond provincial boundaries,starting to see ourselves as players in the wider globaleducational community (increased emphasis on CreativeCommons licensing, new funding envelope for open textbooks ,encouragement of projects with external partners)

More and more international students
http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca/http://www.bccampus.ca/http://www.bccampus.ca/http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/http://www.bccampus.ca/http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca/


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The situation in CanadaWe dont have a national education system so there is

nothing really coordinated at this level

Increasing bandwidth is a national priority, especiallyto northern & remote areas

Keen interest nationally in increasing access to

communications technology (but not lowering thecost!), using technology for education, developingleading edge uses of bandwidth etc. (e.g. Inukshukwireless: http://www.inukshuk.ca/ )
http://www.inukshuk.ca/http://www.inukshuk.ca/


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Your situations General discussion about educational technology

trends and issues in Ecuador & Kenya


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Trends: the Horizon ReportYou can find the 2009 report

here: http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/

Note the main trends: Mobile technology, cloudcomputing, geo-everything, personal webs.

Other trends: democratization of information, gamingin education
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/


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Personal web the personal web: have a look at whats

possible in iGoogle

Also have a look at Google Groups(http://groups.google.ca/) . How hard is it tocreate an online course??? What do you

think this means for educators? Foreducational institutions?
http://www.google.ca/ig?t=3http://groups.google.ca/http://groups.google.ca/http://www.google.ca/ig?t=3


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Challenges ahead for us all Need for the new literacies

A need to use new information, in new ways

Changing ideas of what constitutes scholarship ( andwho gets access to it!)

More emphasis on formal assessment & accreditation

Education distributed more widely, in more ways, to

more people


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Democratization of informationYet another key trend identified by the

Horizon Report: collective

intelligence

Multiple, equally correct answers toquestions

Have another look at Wikipedia: is itreally so amateur?

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